One woman takes her ex’s Vietnam stories into the brave new world of e-readers

By Kevin Taylor

Somebody must have been euro;” as the beautiful phrase in blended French and Vietnamese indicates euro;” beaucoup (French: lots and lots) dien cai dau (Vietnamese: crazy in the head) to get the brainstorm of &l

More than 40 years after he helped found the American Indian Movement, Clyde Bellecourt's mission continues.

By Kevin Taylor

Clyde Bellecourt saw that for himself. Bellecourt, 75, helped form the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis in July of 1968. This week, heâeuro;™s making a string of appearances around Spokane and Coeur dâeuro;™Alene to talk about those days when Indians began fighting for respect, only to wind up fighting FBI director J.

Two men facing prison shed their public defenders in an attempt to test Washington’s marijuana law.

By Kevin Taylor

Markwart didnâeuro;™t sell to him because the detective didnâeuro;™t have the proper documentation showing he could legally use medical marijuana. Still, the Quad Cities Drug Task Force had enough evidence through the use of a confidential informant to arrest Markwart, an outspoken advocate for medical marijuana who sold to 15 patients, mainly college students.

Soldiers who served in Iraq have a different timeline than the president’s

By Kevin Taylor

justifications offered for the Iraq War have morphed and changed since American and coalition forces invaded in 2003. The one constant is that the war has kept going, year after year. Nearly 1 million American soldiers have served in Iraq, President Obama noted recently.

Tribe creates a home for an exhibit that explores the arrival of Jesuits to Coeur d’Alene country.

By Kevin Taylor

On a recent fall morning in a climate-controlled, windowless room, a shoulder-high wooden crate was being carefully opened to reveal four long, covered boxes. The box lids were gently lifted one-by-one to reveal, nested inside, a family of dolls, hand-made by Coeur d’Alene tribal artisans, that have been at the Smithsonian for more than a century.

The longtime host of Sound Space leaves for bold new adventures.

By Kevin Taylor

There was an open bottle of red wine that was making the rounds, and a selection of Chinese take-out in those distinctive little cardboard boxes but, Norvel Trosst insisted, Sunday night in the KPBX control room was just like any other late-night shift during his 20 years at the station.

Inside a fundraiser for the Spokane River with a famous set of initials.

By Kevin Taylor

The draw, of course, is the broad sweep of the Spokane River on the afternoon it reaches flood stage. Thundering, it fills its channel to the brim with a winter’s worth of snowmelt and rain as it churns in white-capped glory towards the downtown waterfall.

State pulls funding for kayak park; counselors keep their jobs.

By Kevin Taylor, Daniel Walters, and Kaitlin Gillespie

A half-million dollar grant to help develop a whitewater park in the Spokane River gorge has been cut off for “lack of substantial progress on the project,” a spokeswoman for the state Recreation and Conservation Office, or RCO, told The Inlander on Tuesday.

An Inlander senior writer reflects on his seven years at the paper.

By Kevin Taylor

Weird, huh? You shouldn’t take that to mean that I heave a big sigh every morning and trudge down here as if reporting to some sort of a Roman slave galley. Whipcrack! “Faster. Type faster!! Once we finish Cheap Eats we go straight to the Best Of issue … Blogging speeeeeed!”.

The wolf’s strange journey on and off the endangered species list.

By Kevin Taylor

Sometimes it seems these are the only choices, given the rhetoric around the wolf. The gray wolf in the Northern Rocky Mountains has just been removed from the endangered species list via a clever maneuver in a budget bill in D.C. It’s the first time that’s been done since the list was created in the 1970s.

A citizens panel cleared the deputy who shot Wayne Scott Creach, but the slain pastor’s family isn’t convinced.

By Kevin Taylor

The family of slain pastor Wayne Scott Creach say they have even more questions after two Spokane County Sheriff’s internal review panels found that Deputy Brian Hirzel was “reasonable and justified in his use of force” during a nighttime encounter...

The Kalispel tribe hit a jackpot with off-rez gaming. So why are they worried about the Spokanes doing the same?

A former Spokesman-Review reporter digs into Afghanistan and lives to tell about it.

By Kevin Taylor

There you are, hustling to get a fresh angle on the terror attacks in Mumbai. You’ve worked your sources. You’re about to get the scoop from a former Pakistani prime minister at his groomed estate in the countryside. You are the only reporter in the room.

The Cowles' paper mill tries to get around new pollution limits through a budgetary footnote.

By Kevin Taylor

The company, one of the seven permitted wastewater dischargers into the Spokane River, told Washington state legislators and representatives of local environmental groups that it intended to attach a proviso to an upcoming budget bill that would force the Department of Ecology to issue the company discharge permits for phosphorus.

The megaloads are traveling along roads built by the forced labor of Japanese-Americans.

By Kevin Taylor

Supporters of the so-called megaloads have trumpeted that Highway 12’s main purpose is to serve commerce. And indeed, it was persistent lobbying for a commercial route through the mountains that swayed the federal government to build the road in the 1940s.

The Idaho House says you need to pony up to sue over megaloads.

By Kevin Taylor

The lawsuits don’t seem so frivolous to residents of central Idaho, who only found out about the transport of 264 proposed megaloads by accident — when power lines were being raised — even though oil companies had been discussing the issue with the state for the better part of two years.

Salish-speaking tribes fight to preserve their language.

By Kevin Taylor

"Do you know, this is the largest gathering of Salish-speaking people in a hundred years?” Chris Parkin is standing near the doorway to a large meeting hall at Northern Quest Casino, and his excitement is so contagious that it hits you: The 321...

Kimball, 27, Mark Knokey, 39, and Cameron Smith, 29, finished in the top 38 places Sunday, and their combined times lifted Spokane Valley Fire to the championship of the 20th-annual Scott Firefighter Stair Climb that drew 118 teams from all over the world to Seattle’s 69-story Columbia Center.

Shonto Pete suffers another setback in his search for justice.

By Kevin Taylor

"Hi, this is Shonto Pete, the guy who got shot in the head …” The voicemail we received last week was blunt. Three years after he was shot in the back of the head while trying to escape a drunk, off-duty cop who was chasing him with a drawn handgun, the courts had failed Shonto Pete.